CRIME REPORT: Memphis rapper charged with DUI in Middle Tennessee

CLARKSVILLE, TENN. — Memphis rapper Lil Wyte had a run-in with the law in Montgomery County on Thursday.

Lil Wyte, whose legal name is Patrick Lanshaw, was booked into Montgomery County Jail on charges of DUI and drug possession at about 3:50 p.m. by Sheriff's Deputy Oliver Marcidas.

Lil Wyte's claim to fame is with the rap group Hypnotize Minds, and he's done work with Three 6 Mafia and DJ Paul, according to various online biographies.

Lanshaw, 29, who gave a Cordova address, was released on $1,500 bond.

-- The Leaf-Chronicle

Woman shot in North Memphis; police seek suspect

A 32-year-old woman was wounded by gunfire on Friday when domestic violence erupted at a North Memphis apartment, according to police.

A man shooting into the Goodwill Village apartment in the 2500 block of Peres about 2 a.m. wounded the woman in the abdomen as she sat on a couch, police reported. Later Friday, she was listed in good condition at the Regional Medical Center at Memphis.

Hours earlier, the man had threatened to shoot and kill the woman's 40-year-old sister after the sister told him she was leaving him. After being threatened, the 40-year-old left her own house and went to the apartment on Peres, north of Chelsea near Hollywood, according to a police report.

The man arrived outside the apartment yelling and begging his girlfriend to take him back, but then said it wasn't going to take long for someone to die, witnesses told police. Four shots were fired through a window and one through a door.

In addition to the woman injured and her sister, there were three children ranging in age from 6 to 11 in the apartment.

Police were seeking a 40-year-old man as the suspect in shooting.

-- Kevin McKenzie

Memphis woman accused of identity theft in hospital birth

A 22-year-old Memphis woman who told police that she did not have health insurance landed in jail on Thursday, accused of stealing another woman's identity when she checked into a hospital to give birth last year, according to a court affidavit.

Jasmine Moore faces a felony charge of identity theft and was held in Shelby County's Jail East on $5,000 bond.

On Jan. 13, 2011, a Memphis Fire Department ambulance transported Moore, who was about to give birth, to Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women on Humphreys Boulevard, investigators reported in the court document.

She registered at the hospital and presented identification in the name of a woman with whom she briefly resided with in the past, according to police. She also had received prenatal care under the other woman's name.

Moore told investigators that she used the other woman's personal information and identification because she did not have insurance.

Moore, according to court records, was originally charged and an arrest warrant issued in March 2011.